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Love Conquers All - Robert C. BENCHLEY
Love Conquers All - Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Author: Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spent his early literary career in New York City as an editor, critic and columnist for many of the major...
Character Building - Booker T. Washington
Character Building - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Self-Help / Contemporary
Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). Booker T. Washington was one of the most prominent...
The Book of Wonder (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
The Book of Wonder (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
The Book of Wonder (1912) is an amazing collection of fourteen tales by one of the pioneers and masters of the fantasy genre Lord Dunsany. Strangeness and humor abound in these delightful stories that were influential to many writers including H.P....
Rose and Roof-Tree - George Parsons Lathrop
Rose and Roof-Tree - George Parsons Lathrop
- Author: George Parsons Lathrop
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American author George Parsons Lathrop. As the dedication reads, "I need give my verse no hint as to whom it sings for. The rose, knowing her own right, makes servitors of the light-rays to carry her color. So every...
Sonnets - Constance Naden
Sonnets - Constance Naden
- Author: Constance Naden
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural world, there are subjects to...
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the South Seas with their girlfriends in tow. Several ship mishaps later, they all land on a desert island to...
Memories of Old Montana - Con Price
Memories of Old Montana - Con Price
- Author: Con Price
- Genre: Memoirs
Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never dull, his life was full of experiences from cattle drives to Indian encounters to cattle wars to frontier...
A Sheaf of Verses - Radclyffe Hall
A Sheaf of Verses - Radclyffe Hall
- Author: Radclyffe Hall
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Radclyffe Hall. At the time of publication of this novel, Radclyffe Hall was living in Bad Homburg in Germany, in a lesbian relationship. Some of the poems in this volume are love poems, and to spare the public's...
Sabotage in Space - Carey Rockwell
Sabotage in Space - Carey Rockwell
- Author: Carey Rockwell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
This book is part of the on-going adventures of Tom Corbett in the Space Cadet Stories. Tom, Astro and Roger are determined to find the saboteurs but get framed in the process, risking court martial and expulsion from the Space Academy. NOTE: Carey...
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
- Author: Richard WILSON
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking readers that 'oriental' stories...
Wilderness Songs - Grace H. Conkling
Wilderness Songs - Grace H. Conkling
- Author: Grace H. Conkling
- Genre: Single author
This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the natural world to the loss and desolation of World War I. Having taught English for 34 years at Smith...
Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc. The chap-book tales, and many of those of Glinski, are,...
Enquire Within Upon Everything - Robert Kemp Philp
Enquire Within Upon Everything - Robert Kemp Philp
- Author: Robert Kemp Philp
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies / Education
Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted in many new and updated...
Bible (WEB) NT 01: Matthew - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 01: Matthew - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: World English Bible
The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. It narrates an account of the life and ministry of Jesus, from his genealogy to his...
A Boy's Will - Robert Frost
A Boy's Will - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Poetry
A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became...
Futility, Or the Wreck of the Titan - Morgan Robertson
Futility, Or the Wreck of the Titan - Morgan Robertson
- Author: Morgan Robertson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This novel was published a full 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, but listeners may be surprised at how many parallels this fictional tale has with subsequent true events. The Titan is the largest and most technologically advanced...
To a Faded Rose - Maurice Switzer
To a Faded Rose - Maurice Switzer
- Author: Maurice Switzer
- Genre: Satire / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 16 recordings of "To a Faded Rose" by Maurice Switzer. This was the Weekly Poetry selection for June 16, 2013....
The Comedy of Errors (version 3) - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Written sometime between 1592 and 1594, Comedy of Errors is certainly the exact recipe for a Shakespearean Comedy. Two sets of identical twin boys are born on the same day but separated when a freak tempest destroys their boat. Fast forward many...
Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Pellucidar is a fictional "Hollow Earth" milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an...
Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 4th, 2007....
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second of the ten book series of Aunt Jane's Nieces. The story continues with the three much loved girls - the sweet and generous Patsy, the cunning Louise, and the sullen Beth. This time they're on a tour of Europe...
History of the United States, Vol. V: Sectional Conflict & Reconstruction - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. V: Sectional Conflict & Reconstruction - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: Early Modern
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
The Frithiof Saga - Ferdinand Schmidt
The Frithiof Saga - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Sagas
Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a hero’s life and adventures in a fixed, regular form, and which is usually intended for recitation, though the Saga is never set in the customary...
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve...
Max - Katherine Cecil Thurston
Max - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Historical Fiction
On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do Irishman. Blake helps Max set up a studio in Montmartre and they enjoy the life of Paris and each other's...
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity...
The Fog - Lola RIDGE
The Fog - Lola RIDGE
- Author: Lola RIDGE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and...
Six Feet Four - Jackson GREGORY
Six Feet Four - Jackson GREGORY
- Author: Jackson GREGORY
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man;...
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Author: Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. It delves more with the inner workings of people rather than with dramatic incidents or what was studied in...
The Defiant Agents (Version 2) - Andre Norton
The Defiant Agents (Version 2) - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on the planet Topaz, he sensed the...
So Warmly We Met - Thomas Moore
So Warmly We Met - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of So Warmly We Met by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22nd, 2010....
Lady Into Fox - David GARNETT
Lady Into Fox - David GARNETT
- Author: David GARNETT
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
When Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox while they are out walking in the woods, Mr. Tebrick sends away all the servants in an attempt to keep Sylvia's new nature a secret. Both then struggle to come...
Frey and his Wife - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Frey and his Wife - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in a saga style by a 20th Century Englishman. It tells the tale of Gunnar, a Norwegian wrongly accused of murder who flees across the mountains to the pagan forests of Sweden. There he meets 'Frey' a...
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. To Let is the third and final book in the saga (although Galsworthy later published two further trilogies which extend the...
Tolstoy - L. Winstanley
Tolstoy - L. Winstanley
- Author: L. Winstanley
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is universally regarded as one of the greatest authors in history. This brief biography discusses, among other things, Tolstoy's childhood, married life, contemporaries, travels, and his strongly held opinions concerning...
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 4) - L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 4) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
When Dorothy is swept away from her home in Kansas by a cyclone, she finds herself in a mysterious land inhabited by equally mysterious people. She is told that only Oz, the great Wizard, can help her get back home, so Dorothy sets off along the...
A Vampire - Luigi Capuana
A Vampire - Luigi Capuana
- Author: Luigi Capuana
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A suspenseful vampire tale. Translated from the original Italian text by Erin O'Rourke. (Summary by Erin O'Rourke)...
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Short Stories
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest tradition of what went on behind...
Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes (version 2) - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes (version 2) - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: American Standard Version
"Ecclesiastes is a wisdom book of the Old Testament. The author represents himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem. The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated...
